YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design
YouTube is testing a new web video player UI after almost a decade. Check out the redesign and see what users are saying about the changes!
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Havent seen it, I know I'll hate it. I have never seen a UI redesign by any company that was actually good. Maybe once, but couldn't remember them for the life of me.
Youtube has had multiple redesigns over its lifespan, and I'll bet you probably do prefer the last one over their original 2005 UI.
Absolutely. A particular bugbear of mine is the "Continue as $username on $TV?" drag-up panel at the bottom when it detects another TV on the same network.
No YouTube, I'd have clicked that big fuckoff cast button in the top right if I wanted people to see my Celine Dion addiction in sixty diagonal inches. Worse still, you have to swipe away the panel before clicking on any other link or tappable object in view.
It's not just the once either. Fuck off.
e: and another thing, fuck your shorts too. I'll watch them when I actually want (and bear with me here) short form content, not crowbarred into my search results like an algorithmic equivalent of someone wearing a white dress at someone else's wedding. Fuck all the way off.
Block the shorts, I've not seen one in over 6 months now.
You can't block the shorts, you can only tell them you are not intrested and they will come right back. As soon as I see them in my feed I always immediately click the 3 dot menu and not interested button and it'll tell me it'll suggest Shorts less frequently but I'll see it again within a day or so if not again later in the same session of watching stuff. They are 100% shoving it down peoples throats and do not listen to user feedback on this. Hell I just went and checked my review in the app store from 2023 and I was complaining about the shorts reapearing immediately back then with no way of blocking them along with the app wanting to sign into any tv on the network that has the YouTube tv app. I literally can't use the mobile app between shorts being shoved into my face and the app wanting to connect to someone elses tv ever time you open the app.
You can permanently get rid of them, because I have.
I want the snake game on the loading screen back :(
Especially Google
iOS comes to my mind (The old one was fun too tho)
iOS wasnt an original design, it was stolen from Creative Labs.
This sounds mega interesting. My (admittedly shite) attempts at googling it return results on the Apple App Store
Would you be so kind as to elaborate with some further reading? I haven't got a rabbit hole to dive in to tonight yet 😊
Stolen or Not it still counts as redesign, no?
No, Apple pays Creative Labs for every apple product sold.
